Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈
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Scientist. Lacemaker. Special fan of Ipswich Lace.
Taking a class via The Lace Museum on #sprang. I have wanted to try this, largely from a historical textiles perspective.
But it's just really fun so far! I am enjoying thinking about the thread paths in a new way. And it has such a cool springy expandable function. How handy that must have been before elastic!
Teacher: The Sprang Lady, https://www.spranglady.com/ Carol James.
So the interpretations of the carvings on the #DightonRock are covered in the exhibit. They are...um...products of their time. Some of the "interpreters" never even saw the rock, they were working with old and incomplete diagrams.
Some are bonkers.
But I don't know what it is either. Could be more than one thing over the centuries.
4/end
Inside the glass case with the rock is this enormous shale "lithocollage". I have never seen anything like it. It appears to have been a kind of homage to the indigenous residents of the area.
I can't find out much about the artist yet. It says: Andriana Chipi Tegu and the name Tegu is embedded in the shale near the bottom.
3/n
There is a second #SacredCod there. Who knew there were two.
(The first one, if you are not familiar with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Cod)
2/n
Another unexpected rock side quest today. I finally saw the #Dighton rock. Been on my bucket list for years.
It's...curious.
It's in a purpose build "museum" from the 1970s. I don't think the exhibit has been updated since. It needs some refreshing.
But the rock is neat.
And there's a phone number to call a Mass DCR person and they come over and open it up. I had the place to myself.
1/n
I watched the chestnut restoration projects proceed, and I'm delighted to see this side effect.
Wow. This university student is doing memes in needlework, and I believe they are a wizard. You must see #GrumpyCat in blackwork #embroidery
And Harambe in #needlelace. Among others.
Just go.